Samsara has confidentially filed for an IPO: This is big news for those of us who have been in the industry for a while. Samsara launched in 2015 as a connected sensor platform with an excellent pedigree. Its founders co-founded enterprise Wi-Fi … [Read more...]
Podcast: Meet the new security standard for the smart home
This week's show kicks off with us talking about Johnson Controls buying the remaining stake it didn't hold in security company Qolsys and parallels with Google's big partnership and investment with ADT. From there Kevin and I share a bit about our … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for June 5, 2020
Sign up for my machine learning at the edge event on June 11: There is a fundamental shift taking place in enterprises and industrial settings enabled by a constant flow of information coming from a sensor. Today, instead of taking a snapshot of a … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week February 14, 2020
Apple files a patent for a self-organizing smart home: Let's kick this off with my usual patent notation. Just because a company files a patent, doesn't mean we'll ever see it in the real world. That said, this patent filed by Apple this week is … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Jan. 4, 2018
Samsara raises $100M for fleet management: Samsara, which started out as a broad IoT platform and quickly narrowed its focus to fleet management, has raised $100 million in funding at a reported $3.6 billion valuation. That brings it into unicorn … [Read more...]